This book kept me interested and engaged. However, I found the final chapters to be disappointing in that I had to suspend my sense of reality in order to accept the big reveal. If you are new to this author, I prefer Sharp Objects and Gone Girl.

There’s a weird part with a guy in high school and a fifth grade girl and honestly nothing really happened but it was weird enough that I just didn’t feel comfortable finishing the book.

Just as you think you’ve got the whole plot figured out there’s a new twist that throws everything off. I love how it can jump from character and time setting throughout the chapters but never get confused by that. Overall great book!

I found this book to be slow at first, but once the author gets warmed up, this book is far from that. Flynn has this amazing ability to piece together small details and turn them into something huge. An absolute must read for mystery lovers.

Super easily digestible. Not as page-turning of a read as Flynn’s other material but still gripping. Heroines across Flynn’s novels definitely feel like just slightly different versions of each other. Sadly, twist is predictable. Not the shook moment I wanted but still nice. Overall a great read for a domestic flight, but not something I would be into enough to come back to over a longer period of time.

Great book! Sad story but kept my attention. Didn’t want to put it down. I thought about it when I wasn’t reading. Flynn is a great story teller!

This was a compelling story. Initially, I was bored only because I didn’t understand the characters and I assumed that it was going to be a predictable ending. However, as the story progressed, I really felt gravitated towards finding out “who done it”. There were so many elements that left me entertained and there were some that I was confused about. Relevancy is key in these mystery novels and I think Gillian does it well, you just have to be patient.

I enjoyed this book mostly, except had to skip over certain parts that were too disturbing. Over all great book.

Plot twist of an ending!

I enjoyed the book for the most part and was very into the whodunnit of it all but the ending was a bit odd for me. I don’t know who I wanted the bad guy to be but who it ultimately was was a little out of left field.